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Quote from the company's FB page "Battles draining all your battery? We'll be at the State Library this Wednesday from 5.15pm with a free powerpack so you can charge your phone. Tag a friend who needs a power up!"
FREE Power Banks @ Victorian State Library 5:15pm Today - Origin Energy [VIC Only]
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im glad you said jk.
Otherwise I would of thought you were serious, and this may have affected my life.
are you jk?
No, he is not Jeff Kennet
It's "wood of thought", not "would of thought".
Its "wood have thoughts" not "wood of thought".
are these to use only or are they actually giving them out to keep?
Considering I can buy them, retail, for less than $0.50…. I'd say keep.
From buyincoins, the 'case' including the circuit is often about $0.30.
The recycled LiPo batteries (usually taken out of failed laptop packs) are $0.10, or 'new ones' for about $0.80cIt's origin energy…. even if they WEREN'T writing these off to 'advertising', they can afford a dollar per person :P
Whats funny, is the brand name printing probably cost them the most…..
That price seems too cheap given they've been eye gouging us with their electricity prices.
The recycled LiPo batteries (usually taken out of failed laptop packs) are $0.10, or 'new ones' for about $0.80c
I'd definitely like to see a link to where those prices can be paid. I am keen to purchase some 18650s for a project.
They're not consistent, you need to keep an eye out.
Its from BuyInCoins; usually theres a minimum order of 1000 or so to reach those prices; they 'bulk' price drop is ridiculous with them.If you're feeling a bit more hands on, go to your local Ex-Gov computer location and ask for failed laptop batteries :P works a charm!
Im yet to find more than a single dead cell out of usually 12.
looks like they just wacked a sticker on it
They've clarified in the Facebook comments that 'you get to keep it'.
looks like $5?
ha!, more like 5mah
the irony of a shit power company giving away cheap shit china unreliable power banks…
Wouldnt the irony only exist if one WASN'T shit?
Only 350 available! It will be ozbargained in just few minutes I believe.
If they do not show up as pokemons, noone will notice. Everyone is glued to their phones in front of the library
Trust me bro, "Power Bank" is the other word that can wake up a PoGo player :P
A cable running from a pocket to the phone is the sign of a true Pokemon master.
How many friends do I need to build a Tesla Powerwall from these?
That'd be Origin, not me
I suspect your mate stole the picture from origin. ;)
Your mate has the most Vietnamese name possible.
Zomg win win guys, we get to catch pokemon at ze library too!!
It'll probably give you a 10% charge boost… but hey its free right?
A battery that size.. will give you 5 minutes :p
Time taken to get the battery is more than 5 minutes.This doesn't make sense!
You're better off heading home to get your charger or plugging in a USB cable somewhere.
There are power points in the library
another reason to move to Melbourne
what is this?! a powerbank for ants???
OH NO! i just payed $19.95 for a 10000mah power pack off ebay and now theyre giving one away for free?!!
Relax, yours has 1000x more capacity
Been here since 520 (530 now) but I can't find them??
Anyone got it?
Edit: found the one guy at 530 handing them out and I just missed out. They must have had very few as there's hardly anyonearound holding a power bank :\
I was there at 5.27. Saw some teenagers with origin hat being surrounded by other teenagers in black outfit. Remembering my age, I given up and chose to lookout for another xiaomi deals posted here.
surrounded by other teenagers in black outfit.
The black outfits were actually school kids dressed in blazers, who were the majority of those gathering around.
:< Unhappy, on power bank in SA
Yeah, they only have few… I was queuing there but the lady changed direction and face the other direction.
So I didn't get it even though I was there from 5.15pm.
They only want it for the promotion with video. Some people got it as soon as they got there without queuing.
must have been ozbargained by the iphone users :)
I was there at 5:17 (I think) and joined the large mob that surrounded the people handing them out.
It got messy real quick as there were no queues and wanted everyone to take a pic of the event and share it on Facebook/Instagram/Twitter with a hastag (that I can't remember now). As a true OzBargainer, I didn't have mobile data and I couldn't be bothered to sign into the free wi-fi, so I decided to shuffle towards the black-hatted men and women anyway. Thankfully, I still got one by simply showing the picture of the mob on my phone.
Not even 5 minutes elapsed.
I got one and went on my merry way back home by train, spotting others talking about the promotion and preceding to remove the paper sticker that branded the un-branded powerbanks.
Here's the mob at 5:17pm, before I lined up
and the powerbank itself, split cable included.Oh yeah, the powerbank has a capacity of 2200mAh
Hmm. Not bad actually. Not bad
kinda looks like the ones from harvey norman for $5…..
It was crazy crowded! No lines or anything. We got there at 5pm, sneaked in from the side :P The boys in uniform are from MHS. Won't do that again, being little I was almost crushed!
NSW now pleasee
Looks like they're doing this again, 5:15pm today.
And I went in again today, same time and location as yesterday.
Managed to wait next to a black-hatted person, where she waited for the bag of powerbanks to arrive. In the meantime, she checked all out phones to ensure pics were taken and hashtags punched in. I decided to proceed like I did yesterday - take pic and only show said pic. Once that's done, she hailed another, stating that we were good to receive them.
As I grabbed mine, I easily turned around - which was a surprise. It seemed like the crowd hasn't noticed just yet and there weren't that much of a mob.
Not even 3 minutes elapsed (new record!).
The one I got was slightly different in that it had the word "POWERBANK" embossed into the plastic casing, missing from yesterday's one. I believe that Origin got their powerbanks from two (or more) different suppliers to make up for the demand.
Far out, had I known they make you take a photo and tag people in it on FB to get the powerbank I wouldn't have bothered to make my way there at all. Knowing my luck, that would have asked me to load up FB to show them I actually posted it.
Giving them that kind of PR is worth a lot more than the powerbank!
had I known they make you take a photo and tag people in it on FB to get the powerbank I wouldn't have bothered to make my way there at all.
I didn't upload/tag the picture at all (as I had no internet access on my phone). They handed one to me anyway.
epic, now I need a quick flight to Melbourne, anyone have any tickets?
jk